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Sample Activities

Frog Big Books

• Following directions to make an origami jumping frog http://www.enchantedlearning.com/crafts/origami/frog/

• Following directions to make a frog life cycle wheel http://www.kidcyber.com.au/topics/lifecyclefrogactiv.htm

• Life Cycle of a frog – Children assemble a chart by reading and pasting life’s stages in order

• Create a ‘mini book’ of facts about a frog

• Comprehension task – answering questions about frogs (where they live, how they breathe)

• Fiction text – Looking at the features of this repetitive text – make connections with other similar texts

• Maybe get children to work on an innovation on this text

• Word Study focus – adding endings to words ed, ing, er, s

Millipedes-CSIRO	Minibeasts minibeast posters.pdf Details Download 833 KB	Webquests Butterfly Life Cycle Mununja the Butterfly
Virtual Insects Movies and information)	Life cyles of various insects.pptx Details Download 553 KB
WA Education Dept Various links	Kid Cyber
Camouflage PP.pptx Details Download 724 KB	Data Chart for Research Data Chart Life Cycles.doc Details Download 80 KB	Data Chart Ant.doc Details Download 288 KB

Poems	Songs
The Spider and the Fly There was an old lady who swallowed a fly The Praying Mantis Bug Chant Butterflies and caterpillars Various bugs and another mix Stories Rhymes and Poems Various ant poems Look for Anthill Various poems Look for A Fly's Eye View	Icky Icky Insectsand the words Various - some good some not. Ugly Big Ball Lyrics and Animated version - very clever *
Alexander Beetle / Forgiven - A. A. Milne The Ants Go Marching	listen to Melanie Safka sing it (very olden days!) A cute movie version

Spiders life cycle.pdf Details Download 106 KB	minibeasts data chart.pdf Details Download 1 KB
Dragonfly life cycle.pdf Details Download 93 KB